Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Dr. Matthew Petrusick, Senior Director of the

Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire show. Thank you, as always, for joining us.

Friends, in honor of St. John Henry Newman's recently being named a doctor of the church,

we're bringing you Bishop Barron's entire Word on Fire Institute lecture series on John Henry Newman,

right here for free. Throughout these next several weeks, we'll dive deep into one of Bishop Barron's spiritual and intellectual heroes.

St. John Henry Newman. As always, enjoy.

We're continuing our study of the Apologio provitia sua, so Newman's great story of the

development of his mind, and we've come to the crisis point of 1841, which is the publication of

track number 90, and Newman becomes a very controversial figure,

and he withdraws from the Oxford movement. But now, really to understand the transition to

Catholicism, we have to back up a little bit from that point. To the year 1839, Newman is at the

height of his powers. He's about 38 years old. He's a major public figure. He's

having a big impact on English society. And he withdraws that summer to do research into his favorite

area, which is the Church of Antiquity. And during that summer of 1839, he looks, I won't give

you all the details here, don't worry,

but he looks at the famous monophysite controversy from the 5th century.

This was the controversy around the Christology, the nature and person of Jesus.

And we have the famous resolution of the Council of Calcedon, that in Jesus,

two natures, divine and human, come together in one person.

So Newman sees that as the Orthodox position, put it if you want, on the extreme right.

On the extreme left, there was a Udikean position, which meant a focus on two persons, that there are two persons in Jesus.

Then there was a mediating position,

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